Hegel with Beckett: The Persistence of Abstraction

International Journal of Žižek Studies 13 (1) (2019)
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Abstract

Fredric Jameson is best known for applying to social and cultural life the motto: historicize every phenomenon, locate it in its concrete historical totality. What I want to do in this brief reflection is to elaborate a properly dialectical reading of this motto, a reading which recognizes abstraction itself as a concrete historical power. What Marxism calls.

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Slavoj Žižek
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